Wrongly Accused Shoplifting In Tesco - Help

durham_girl

Why would YOU put yourself throught that over some misguided notion that because you had your 'rights' you didn't have to show them your receipt. !!!!!! you had magazines that weren't in a Tesco carrier, you were in the store and you put them into your own bag. how on earth can you not see that is suspicious behaviour.

YOU are in the wrong here, YOU have wasted everybodies time and YOU are quite possibly the biggest pillock I have heard about in quite some time.

peachyprice

Chutzpah wrote: »

To be absolutely honest, I read the original post and was thinking 'this must be a wind up'....

Ah, what the hell. Take them to court!!

You could read it? you did better than me then

Butlers1982

What's annoying is the guys who stopped me would not tell why they did, only the fact that they told me a customer had seen me putting something into my bag in the store.

i seem to think, what has come across as arrogance, you think you a are a clever person.
You will therefore know that you have answered the question, why in gods name cant you see that????

amersall

CG19a wrote: »

All Tesco security staff are trained in SCONE
Selection
Concealment
Observation
Non-Payment
Exit

When these 5 things have been "checked off" they will then stop someone. They had a suspicion that you had taken something, so they asked to see your receipt. When you wouldn't provide it, they can really only assume that you don't have one.

i was in tesco just before christmas, i noticed a chinese guy picking up bunches of spring onions and making one bunch out of two! putting one of the price tags underneath the box,now this wasnt a couple of bunches his basket was half full and that is not joking, i saw an assistant and we both watched him do this , the security guard was brought as this technically stealing,(but buy one get one free!) the security guard went over to him and asked what he was doing, THE CHINESE GUY DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH or pretended not to, the security guard moved him on his way and said to us that it would be a wasteof time getting him on the way out and getting the police as they would need an interpreter that would cost a fortune! so the guy ended up with free spring onions, what suprised me even more was the fact the checkout operator did not realise how large the bunches were!! so if you want to shoplift just pretend you dont understand whats being said , freebies all round!

Treadway1

amersall wrote: »

i was in tesco just before christmas, i noticed a chinese guy picking up bunches of spring onions and making one bunch out of two! putting one of the price tags underneath the box,now this wasnt a couple of bunches his basket was half full and that is not joking, i saw an assistant and we both watched him do this , the security guard was brought as this technically stealing,(but one get one free!) the security guard went over to him and asked what he was doing, THE CHINESE GUY DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH or pretended not to, the security guard moved him on his way and said to us that it would be a wasteof time getting him on the way out and getting the police as they would need an interpreter that would cost a fortune! so the guy ended up with free spring onions, what suprised me even more was the fact the checkout operator did not realise how large the bunches were!! so if you want to shoplift just pretend you dont understand whats being said , freebies all round!

This is ridiculous (Not what you are saying as such amersall, but the story itself and the guard). Firstly, this is Fraud by mis-representation (It used to be Deception, again before SOCPA came in). Secondly, the security guard obivously didnt have a clue what he was doing, because A) I dont understand why he let him walk out with the food knowing that he had more than he should. He should have taken it off of him and booted him out, and why he thinks it would cost a fortune for the store to get a interpreter, as this is arranged by the Police if the guy is arretsed. Infact Ive never heard of a store arranging for a translator themselves, unless they have a member of staff who speak that language.

As you say, no wonder this countryis going the way it is, when the very people employed to stop things like this turn a blind eye!!! :mad:

Poppy9

Treadway1 wrote: »

This is ridiculous (Not what you are saying as such amersall, but the story itself and the guard). Firstly, this is Fraud by mis-representation (It used to be Deception, again before SOCPA came in). Secondly, the security guard obivously didnt have a clue what he was doing, because A) I dont understand why he let him walk out with the food knowing that he had more than he should. He should have taken it off of him and booted him out, and why he thinks it would cost a fortune for the store to get a interpreter, as this is arranged by the Police if the guy is arretsed. Infact Ive never heard of a store arranging for a translator themselves, unless they have a member of staff who speak that language.

As you say, no wonder this countryis going the way it is, when the very people employed to stop things like this turn a blind eye!!! :mad:

Could the security guard have been afraid of being called racist by the thief?

Money_maker

The 23 mags were to do with an offer on a handbag worth £12 odd for only £2.95 postage or something - see previous posts by op.

Must be an ebay seller or have lots of female relatives!

Just by chance, OP, did the sa miscount the number of copies you had?

Treadway1

Poppy9 wrote: »

Could the security guard have been afraid of being called racist by the thief?

If this were the case, then this would succeed only in driving down my already low opinion of him!!!

Seriously though, if every security guard was scared of stopping someone because of their ethnicity, then only white people would be arrested, and where would that leave the Daily Mail??? How would they cope without their immigrant crime figures scandal!!!

pinkprincedss1980

pinkprincedss1980 wrote: »

I have to agree with what the other op's have said and question why on earth you didnt just show your receipt. I'm sure a fair few of us have either had alarms go off as weve left the store due to tags been left on items or been asked to show receipts an rather than make a fuss like you did we quite happily obilged an maybe even had a laugh an joke with security about it as they are only doing their jobs.
I think personally you brought all this on yourself and have no one else to blame other than yourself for the embarrassment you caused yoursef and the wasting of police and tesco staffs time.

Havin put this post up earier me and my mum then went to our local Tesco's this evening only for this to happen to us lol!!!
I had put my paid shoppin in my mums trolley with her paid shopping an had popped back in store to pick up a loaf of bread that we had forgotten. Totally unknown to me until I got back to the car where I was meeting my mum she had been stopped on the way out by security as she had set the alarms off lol!!!
It turned out a printer cartridge she had bought still had its tag on but as there were two cartridges in there as I had bought one aswell she had to show receipts for it all. She did this quite happily and she said she enjoyed the frisking she got lol!!!
There were no police called, no shouting and no unwillingness to comply with what was asked and this is the way it always is whenever we set the alarms off which is quite often lol!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

pinkprincedss1980

We have been known to buy several copies of magazines in one transaction when there are good mocs in there like this weeks best lol!!!